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Once a bear has broken into a place and found food, there's no going back

Two wolves died in Colorado this spring: One from an apparent mountain lion attack, and the other from injuries sustained from traps designed to protect livestock from coyotes

One of the ­oldest forms of hunting, falconry has evolved into a modern sport with a thousand variations. For this bird hunter, running his goshawk over setters is the dream

An ode to one of the greatest big-game fish on the planet

I had been attacked by a charging moose and suffered shattered ribs. Now, in a driving rainstorm in the black Alaska night, three brown bears moved in for the kill

Trijicon’s double-tough optics are made to perform in any situation.

There's a lot of heated debate around free-ranging horses in the West. But it's often workaday Westerners — and not the government — who feel the brunt of this controversy

We outline our favorite states for traveling, DIY whitetail hunters and describe how to find quality opportunities when you get there

Even with more than 600 rounds of testing, this pistol proved to be accurate, fast, and wonderfully smooth

The lake trout was caught in 2023 near Sheboygan Reef — the same general area where that very fish was stocked in 1985

Researchers are now experimenting with animatronic, heat-generating rabbits that (they hope) can lure invasive pythons right to them

As gator populations recovered in the Southeast, human-gator conflicts rose into a heated debate around delisting the big reptiles — not unlike grizzlies today

"I knew it was over 100 pounds, but I had no idea just how big it really was"

Don't wait for fall. These four species offer barrel-burning shoots right now

After Wisconsin hunter Jim Jordan shot a 200-plus-inch buck in 1914, his taxidermist vanished — along with the massive antlers. Six decades later, the buck was finally recognized as the largest typical whitetail ever tagged in the U.S.

On that same hunt in the Cassiar Mountains, I also tagged one of the biggest bull moose ever bowhunted

Though many deer hunters consider it too small, the .223 has taken countless whitetail deer. Here’s why you should consider it

Gene Grodzki was one of several people reportedly struck by lightning. Then he got up and started administering CPR

For days, the Cape Cod stripers ignored us. Then the blitz hit, and Ralph connected with the biggest taken by a sportsman since 1913

After finding only two active leks in 2024, state biologists counted zero male birds during their annual population survey this spring